Combot is a general-purpose
humanoid robot that Lee Chaolan entered in The King of Iron Fist Tournament
4 as a part of his scheme to win. Combot is unlike any other humanoid robots
developed to date. Besides its default set of motor functions, a powerful
learning AI function enables it to mimic perfectly any human motion captured
on its mocap sensor arrays. With this ability, Combot is suitable for a
wide spectrum of applications from childcare, housekeeping, service industries,
and even military duty. However, this Combot is a unique version customized
for hand-to-hand combat. In fact, its development was rushed so that it
could be finished in time for the Tournament.

Violet's plan was to have Combat memorize a variety of fighting styles
as it progressed through the Tournament. His ultimate goal was to create
the most powerful hand-to-hand combat weapon in the world and win the Mishima
Zaibatsu at the same time. Unfortunately, the development team did not
have sufficient time to debug Combot. As a result, a few bugs remained
in its memory subsystems when the Tournament started. These bugs prevent
Combot from mimicking more than one person's moves each time it is powered
up.

Combot took the
place of Mokujin in Tekken 4,
and while he was cool in some ways, many Tekken fans found themselves missing that old
hunk of wood... Mokujin is just so lovable and is really an icon of Tekken since
his debut, which is likely why Namco brought him back in Tekken 5 and
after.

Combot is still a good design in his own
right, and possibly even makes a bit more sense than Mokujin. I wanted to see
Combot and Mokujin appear in the same game for years, and my wish was finally
granted in Tekken Tag 2! Combot makes his epic return with a starring
role in TTT2's "Fight Lab" Tutorial Mode. Instead of being a
mimic character like Mokujin, players can create their own version of Combot
using a variety of moves from other fighters (and even customize him visually).
No doubt, Namco brought Combot back to the series in a brilliant way... and I
was definitely glad to see him return after so many years. Namco... Namco...
Namco... yet again with the epic fan service. :]